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(No Model.) P. B. RHOADS' CAR FOR ELEVATORS.

No. 425,828. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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FRANK B. RHOADS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO EDDY L. CLARK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AND LYMAN D. HOIVARD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR FOR ELEVATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,828, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed January '7, 1890. Serial No. 336,160. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: N rests on the rollers L and rides thereover Be it known that I, FRANK B. RHOADs, a in its lateral movement. The opposite end citizen of the United States, residing in the of the car-body is pivoted to the forward city and county of Philadelphia, State of truck Q, as at R.

Pennsylvania, have invented a new and use- To move the car-body either to one side or ful Improvement in Cars for Elevators, &c., the other, the crank or handle J is turned to which improvement is fully set forth in the revolve the rod F, and the screw-threaded following specification and accompanying surface F thereof coacts with the collar P on drawings. the beam N to cause the said body to move [0 My invention consists of the body of a car over the rollers L in the beam D. WVhen the having means whereby it may be adjusted rod F reaches a point at which it is about to over a bin, chute, or other place of storage of bind with a collar P, it is relieved by the beam material to accommodate the car to said place D, which turns on the turn-table or fifthfor loading and unloading purposes. wheel B, and thereby the said rod F and col- I 5 Figure 1 represents a top plan view of the lar P are always held in a proper relative porunning-gear and supporting-bolsters in full sition to each other. lines and body of a car in dotted lines em- This form of car is especially adapted for bodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an use in loading and unloading yards or other end elevation of the bolsters and a portion of like places where it may be necessary to po- 20 the rear truck. Fig. 3 represents a sectional sition a car for use with other mechanism view of the same. Fig. 4 represents a rear such as elevating buckets, chutes, or analoelevation of the rear truck, partially in secgous devices moving through ahatchway, hole, tion I or opening for said purpose or attached to the Similar letters of reference indicate correcar; but it will be understood that I do not 25 sponding parts in the several figures. confine myself to any specified usage, the

Referring to the drawings, A designates the main object being to move one end of the carmain bolster of the rear truck of a car, to body to such a position as to bring the same which is secured one section of av turn-table over the hatchway, opening, or hole of a bin or fifth-wheel B and carrying friction-rollers or place of storage for the purposes set forth.

30 O. Over said bolster Ais mounted a beam D, Having thus described my invention, whatI So having the other section of said turn-table or claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters fifth-wheel B attached thereto and resting on Patent, is the rollers C. To said beam D are connected 1. A car-body pivoted at one end and havbosses E, in which is mounted a rod F, having ing means at the opposite end for laterally 3 5 end collars G on each side of the bosses E to ad usting one end of the same to bring said prevent the same from having an endwise body outward over the frame in a horizontal movement, the said rod being also formed position, substantially as described. with a screw-threaded surface F at or about 2. A car-body pivoted at one end and at its the central portion thereof. One end H of opposite end mounted on a bolster having 40 said rod F is constructed in the form of a rollersthereon,a screw-threaded rod attached or: bearingtoreceiveacrankorhandle J. (Shown to said bolster, and a screw-threaded collar in dotted lines, Fig. 1.) To the sides of said attached to said car-body, substantially as beam D are secured metal plates K to form described. bearings for a series of rollers L, mounted in 3. A car-body pivoted at one end and at 5 the upper part of said beam. A cross-beam its opposite end mounted on a bolster and ca- 5 M is attached to the bottom of the car-sills N pable of being turned, a screw-collar conand having a screw-threaded collar P, connected to said car-body, and a screw-rod atnected to the upper central portion of the tached to the said bolster, substantially as edge thereof, through which passes the screwdescribed.

0 th aded portion F of the rod F. The beam 4. The collar P on the car-body, and the I00 beam D, l1aving the screw-rod engaging with said collar P, and the bolster A of the truck, with the turn-table B between the same and said beam D, substantially as described.

5. A laterally-movable car-body pivoted at one end and having a threaded collar P on the opposite end, and a bolster rotatably mounted on a truck and carrying a screw-rod which engages with said collar,twhereby said body is laterally adjustable, and said bolster with its to screw-rod conforms to the motion of said collar, substantially as described.

FRANK B. RHOADS.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

